Day after day we felt ourselves getting weaker and more relaxed, whilst the least change of weather, or the slightest degree of cold, was most painfully felt by both of us.

What we were to do in the wet weather, which might daily be expected, I knew not, suffering as we did from the frosts and dews only.

In the state we now were in, I do not think that we could have survived many days' exposure to wet.
May 15 .-- I intended to have proceeded early on our journey this morning, but was so ill again, that for some hours I could not stir.

The boy was similarly situated.

About ten we got a little better, and packing up our things, moved away, but had scarcely gone more than a couple of miles along the beach, when I discovered that the horse-hobbles had been left behind.